BSD 6 or 7 + Intel 3200 MCH chipset

[Dave Overton]

> 
> On Tuesday 25 March 2008 09:19:00 pm Dave Overton wrote:
> > Just put together a nice 1U box, Tyan Tank GT20, plugged in its 8gb 
> > ECC RAM, its 4 shiney new HDs and fired it up.  Bios looks normal, 
> > reset the clock to something resembling today, and throw in 
> the Fbsd7 disk!
> >
> > No joy.
> >
> > I get just a hint of a "booting" line, then an instant 
> reboot, or with 
> > a 6 disk, I get a scrolling mess that I have no idea what it says.
> 
> Partly guessing, but this sounds like the real-mode BTX 
> bootloader issue. 
> It's become increasingly common on newer hardware, and it's 
> not limited to USB devices like it used to be. Fortunately, 
> there is a good chance that jhb's recent BTX overhaul will 
> fix it. Unfortunately, it was only committed to -CURRENT two 
> weeks ago and MFC'ed to RELENG_6 and RELENG_7 one week ago so 
> I doubt there's a ready-to-use snapshot CD you can download 
> that includes it.
> 
> If it were me I'd create a bootable USB stick (on another 
> machine) to verify that you can boot the server with the 
> latest boot blocks, then use it to do a manual install (or at 
> least bootstrap the process). But that's just me--I like that 
> sort of thing. It's also possible to roll your own 
> installation CD but I've never done.it. I do recall someone 
> posting an link to an image to one of the mailing lists, but 
> IIRC that was with a BTX patch older than the one that 
> actually got committed. Probably someone else on this list 
> has a better suggestion.
> 
> JN
> 
> > Tyan Tank GT20 model B5211
> > Tyan Toledo i3200R m/b
> > Intel 3200 MCH chipset.


Fixed with ISO built on March 25,2008 Fbsd7-Stable, in  case anyone else
find they have this problem.  Probably fixed before that, but thats the one
I used, and things are working great today.

Thanks for the help guys.

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